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Painted portrait of Septimius
Severus and his family,
from Egypt, ca. 200 CE. Tempera on wood, 1’ 2” diameter. Staatliche Museen,
Berlin.
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Chariot procession of Septimius Severus, relief from the Arch of Septimius Severus, Lepcis Magna, Libya, 203 CE. Marble, 5’ 6”
high. Castle Museum, Tripoli.
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Relief with funerary procession, from Amiternum, Italy, second half of first century BCE. Limestone, 2’ 2” high. Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo,
L’Aquila.
Rare for a freed slave to commission a tomb relief with narrative. Shows deceased looking around at own funeral with paid mourners. Floating ground planes were
meant to be interpreted as being behind the figures on lower ground planes. A pre-classical aversion to overlapping figures. This style had been out of fashion for a long
time. Then, as now, social status often dictates artistic taste.
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Plan of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy, 212–216 CE. 1) natatio, 2) frigidarium, 3) tepidarium, 4) caldarium, 5)
palaestra.
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Heroic portrait of Trebonianus Gallus,
from Rome, Italy, 251–253 CE. Bronze,
7’ 11” high. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
Battle of Romans and barbarians (Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus), from Rome, Italy, ca.
250–260 CE. Marble, 5’ high. Museo Nazionale Romano-Palazzo Altemps, Rome.
Sarcophagus with the myth of Orestes, ca. 140–150 CE. Marble, 2’ 7 1/2” high. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.
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Restored view (top) and plan (bottom) of the
Temple of Venus, Baalbek, Lebanon, third
century CE.
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Portraits of the four tetrarchs,
from Constantinople
, ca. 305 CE. Porphyry, 4’ 3”
high. Saint Mark’s, Venice.
Decursio, pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, Italy, ca. 161 CE. Marble, 8’ 1 1/2” high. Musei Vaticani, Rome.
8 CENTURIES AFTER GREEKS
FREED THE HUMAN FORM FROM
THE RIGID FRONTALITY OF
EGYPTIAN-INSPIRED KOUROS
STANCE, THE HUMAN FIGURE IS
AGAIN CONCEIVED OF IN ICONIC
TERMS. IDEALISM, NATURALISM,
INDIVIDUALITY, AND
PERSONALITY BELONG TO THE
PAST.
Distribution of largess, detail of the north frieze of the Arch of Constantine, Rome, Italy, 312–315 CE. Marble,
3’ 4” high.
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Portrait of Constantine,
from the Basilica Nova,
Rome, Italy, ca. 315–330 CE. Marble, 8’ 6” high. Musei Capitolini,
Rome.
Interior view of Trajan's Basilica (Basilica Ulpia), as
restored by Canina. (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Basilica at Pompeii. 1, Portico (Chalcidicum); 2, hall of
basilica; 3, aisles; 4, altar; 5, tribunal; 6, offices.
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
Coins with portraits of Constantine. Nummus (left), 307 CE., diameter 1”. American
Numismatic Society, New York. Medallion (right), ca. 315 CE. Silver, diameter 1”. Staatliche
Munzsammlung, Munich.
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